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Word: walhalla (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dress Rite. In Walhalla, S.C., 37 members of the Rider Mountain Pentecostal Fire Baptized Holiness Church went to court asking for the reinstatement of their pastor, the Rev. Haskell Lee, who had been unfrocked for wearing a necktie in the pulpit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 13, 1958 | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

...Shotgun Blast. In Walhalla, S.C., another jury listened to an even darker story. It was told by 14-year-old John Henry Davis, a frightened Negro boy. He was in the living room of "Uncle Mike" Rice's farmhouse on the night of November 12 when two white men rapped on the front door. Uncle Mike answered and he heard a voice asking what time it was. Before Rice could reply, a shotgun blast ripped into his leg, another tore him across the belly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Broken Monopoly | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

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